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GERMAN OCTOBERFEST TASTE-OFF
I’m afraid it’s gotten rather late in the season to post this kind of thing, especially considering that Germany’s real Octoberfest celebration has been over for nearly a month, but I figure better...
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THAT NOT-SO-FRESH FEELING
This beer is older than our last blog post. Not a good sign. Late February is not the best time of year to live in the northeastern United States. Days are brutish and short. Weather conditions...
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99 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE (GREAT) WALL. CRAFT BEER IN CHINA PT. 1
While enjoying a nice Southern California morning the other week, a conversation with a friend who had spent the last 7 years of his life living in China quickly turned from surfing to beer (as...
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LADY JAY FINDS BEER IN ANOTHER WAREHOUSE
Halfway into my recent trip to London, I was feeling somewhat disconcerted by my failure to ferret out a variety of beer experiences. Sure, I’d wandered down to the pub for a pint and a pie, and...
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A FRESH BEER INFRACTION
Last night I walked into the local bottleshop on my way home from work to check out a Pittsburgh Beer Week promotion– discounted pints of a certain IPA that comes out at every year at Christmas. Not...
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WE DO NOT PLAN…
The Black Panthers would like a word with you, Rogue. We generally don’t bash craft breweries here at Aleheads. We love the collegial, collaborative nature of the industry and other than the occasional...
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SIX BEERS FROM CHICAGO’S RELAUNCHED BERGHOFF BREWERY
In today’s craft beer landscape, it must be extremely difficult for a fledgling brewery to know the true value of what a famous name is really worth. There are simply so many new ale and lager...
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STAY CLASSY, SAN DIEGO
The Aleheads have visited Beervana (Portland, OR), the Napa of Beer (Fort Collins down through Denver, CO) and Beer City, USA (Asheville, NC). In between we’ve been to Chicago, Michigan, San Francisco,...
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LAGUNITAS SUCKS
News broke yesterday that Dutch brewing behemoth Heineken (the 2nd largest international brewer in the world) will be purchasing a 50% stake in American craft beer darling Lagunitas. Tony Magee, the...
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WICKED DEED
It’s been forever and a day since we posted here on Aleheads. For all intents and purposes, this blog is defunct…a relic of a time when craft beer was just on the cusp of entering the zeitgeist. When...
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